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’Peggers
stunned as
Pope resigns
March conclave. Next
pontiff to be elected in
a world of social media
BERNICE
PONTANILLA

bernice.pontanilla@metronews.ca

The resignation of the leader
of the world’s Roman Catholic Church caught millions
by surprise, including here in
Winnipeg.
On Monday, Pope Benedict
XVI, 85, said he lacked the
strength to fulfil his duties and
on Feb. 28 will become the first
pontiff in 600 years to resign.
The announcement sets the

stage for a conclave in March
to elect a new leader for the
world’s one billion Catholics.
Dr. Christopher Adams, rector at the University of Manitoba’s St. Paul’s College, said
he was surprised by the announcement.
“Looking back on it, I
should not have been,” he said,
adding that Pope Benedict
was already 78 when he was
chosen to lead the Church in
2005.
Adams said he’s looking
forward to seeing who is elected during the conclave, since
that will signal which direction the Church is headed.
“There is no heir apparent,” he said.

“Now we wonder; will it be
a Latin American or a Filipino
(pope) ... I think we might be
in for a surprise.”
Contenders to succeed include Cardinal Marc Ouellet,
the Canadian head of the Vatican’s office for bishops.
Matt
Semchyshyn,
president of the St. Paul’s College Student Association, said
if Ouellet is chosen, it would
be “great for Canada.”
“It would mean a lot to
Catholic Canadians,” said the
21-year-old recreation management student.
Calls to Archbishop of
Winnipeg James Weisgerber
were not returned by press
time.

Plane crash
Where’s the
claims 4 lives horsemeat?

Mmm ... tastes
like a hot date

Single-dad pilot was flying with
his boys and their friend PAGE 3

Wondering what to eat to keep
your love life sweet? PAGE 12

Everywhere in Europe it seems,
as fraud scandal grows PAGE 8

Pope Benedict XVI wipes his face in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican in 2005. DOMENICO STINELLIS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE

Will he like us? ’Peg’s
new polar bear to meet
public on Valentine’s Day
The Assiniboine Park Zoo has
a cute and furry present to
share with Winnipeg this Valentine’s Day.
The zoo will introduce us
to Hudson, the 15-month-old
polar bear who arrived at the
zoo’s new International Polar
Bear Conservation Centre late
last month.
“He’s very relaxed in his new
home and he certainly loves the
snow and winter weather,” said
Tim Sinclair-Smith, the zoo’s
director of zoological operations, in a release.
Hudson is the first polar
bear making his temporary

Hudson the polar bear HANDOUT

home in the IPBCC.
Winnipeggers can meet
him Thursday at 11:30 a.m.
METRO

Don’t look now but ...
David MacNair stands with a snow sculpture of Assiniboine Park Zoo’s new
polar bear, Hudson, which he and a team of three other artists created to be
displayed in front of the Manitoba Legislative Building. SHANE GIBSON/METRO

Three boys, pilot
killed in plane crash

Waskada. Experienced
pilot took two sons
and their friend out
for a weekend treat
Darren Spence was a dedicated
dad who built his two young
sons their own dirt-bike racing
track, drove them to hockey
practice and, on some weekends, took them up in the air
for a ride.
The experienced crop-dusting pilot from Waskada, Man.
owned a couple of work planes
as well as a six-seater Cessna
210, which crashed near the
small town on Sunday.
Friends confirmed Monday that Spence, 37, died in
the crash along with his sons,
who were 9 and 10, and a nineyear-old family friend, Dawson
Pentecost.
“After a weekend, it was
a treat to take the kids flying
and they would just go and
look over the countryside,”
said close pal Terry Linto.
“The kids loved it.”
Agnes Street

Man in critical
condition after
stabbing
A man was taken to hospital in critical condition
after being stabbed in the
West End early Monday.
Officers were called to
the 400 block of Agnes
Street around 4:45 a.m.
where police believe the
32-year-old victim walked
to after being stabbed somewhere nearby.
Neighbours tell Metro

Logan and Gage Spence died in a plane crash on Sunday, along with their father Darren, and Dawson Pentecost. FACEBOOK.COM

Investigators said the singleengine plane left a private airstrip near Waskada on Sunday
afternoon and headed 110 kilometres northeast to Brandon.
The plane’s emergency
beacon went off and a military
search-and-rescue plane from
Winnipeg found the wreckage
in a field about five kilometres
from the airstrip. A rescue

crew parachuted down to the
crash site. Everyone on board
was dead.
Peter Hildebrand, regional
manager for the Transportation Safety Board, said it
wasn’t yet clear why the plane
crashed.
The aircraft was so severely
damaged that investigators
couldn’t determine if its land-

that police cordoned off
a number of houses on
the street with tape while
searching for a suspect or
suspects early Monday, but
a police spokesperson said
he wasn’t aware of any arrests by later in the day.
The investigation continues in its early stages.

man after an armed suspect
robbed a Garden City area
restaurant Sunday night.
The suspect made
off with an undisclosed
amount of cash after
confronting the 41-year-old
male clerk at the restaurant
in the 2100 block of McPhillips Street around 8 p.m.
The suspect is described
as white, five-foot ten,
35-40 years old, with a thin
build and short graying/
white hair.
Anyone with information should call police at
204-986-6219 or CrimeStoppers at 204-786-TIPS. METRO

METRO

Garden City

Police search for
restaurant robber
Police are looking for a

ing gear was down, he said.
Investigators were looking
into both the mechanics of the
plane and the weather.
Linto said Spence’s passion
for flying was matched by his
love for his children. He said
the single dad raised his boys,
Gage and Logan, and also had a
young daughter at home.
THE CANADIAN PRESS

West End

Suspect sought in
store robbery
Police are looking for a
suspect after an armed man
robbed a West End area
convenience store Sunday.
The suspect took cash and
lottery tickets after threatening the male employees
working at the store in the
600 block of Ellice Avenue
around 8:10 p.m.
The suspect is described
as aboriginal, 35-40 years
old, with a stocky build and
a moustache. METRO

NEWS

A military panel weighing
the fate of a retired warrant
officer has been presented
with two very different
pictures of him — a reckless weapons expert who
caused a fellow soldier’s
death, or a conscientious
leader who did the best he
could under trying circumstances.
“Hindsight is 20-20. The
temptation is very strong
to adopt the attitude of ...
a Monday-morning office
quarterback,” Maj. PhilippeLuc Boutin, lawyer for Paul
Ravensdale, said in his closing arguments at a court
martial Monday.
“Warrant officer Ravensdale does not ask for pity
or compassion. Warrant
officer Ravensdale only asks
that justice is done.”
Ravensdale faces six
charges: manslaughter,
unlawfully causing bodily
harm, two counts of breach
of duty and two counts of
negligence. They stem from
an exercise he led on a
weapons range in Afghanistan on Feb. 12, 2010.
The soldiers were training on C-19 anti-personnel
land mines, which are
designed to shoot 700 steel
ball bearings forward in
a fan pattern. One of the
mines fired backward
instead, directly toward
soldiers who thought they
were out of harm’s way.
Four ball bearings
struck Cpl. Joshua Baker,
including one in the chest
that killed him. Four other
soldiers were injured.
The prosecution, led
by Maj. Tony Tamburro,
alleges Ravensdale ignored
safety guidelines that
personnel be at least 100
metres behind a C-19 unless they are in a dugout, a
vehicle or covered by some
sort of shield.
The court martial was
shown video of soldiers
standing in direct sight of
the mine and much closer
than 100 metres.
In his closing argument,
Tamburro urged the fivemember military panel to
convict Ravensdale.
“He let people stand
out in the open while the
weapon was being fired. It’s
not as if he didn’t know. He
was right there.”
Tamburro said Ravensdale bore responsibility as
the person in charge of the
exercise and as the man
who gave the orders to fire.
Boutin countered that
Ravensdale was put in a
near-impossible situation
by being assigned to run
the exercise, act as officer
in charge of the soldiers
and perform as the range
safety officer. The latter is
supposed to be assigned to
a separate person.

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Overdose

Drug dealer on
trial for allegedly
selling morphine
to girl who OD’d

CALL FOR DELEGATES: LEADING THE WAY YOUTH SUMMIT

If you are between 18 and 28, with a keen interest in
transit and sustainable transportation, you can apply
to be a delegate at the Leading the Way Youth Summit on Sustainable Transportation taking place May
10-12 in Calgary. This regional youth summit event
is presented by the Prairies and Territories Chapter
and the B.C. Committee of the Canadian Urban Transit Association and hosted locally by Calgary Transit.
Delegates will have the opportunity to learn, share
ideas, network, and explore career paths with likeminded peers and professionals in transit and related
industries. Inspiring speakers, sessions on best practices in transit and sustainable transportation, a career fair and social activities round out this weekend
summit focused on communities in western Canada.
Accommodation, travel and meals are provided for
delegates who are selected to participate. Application
deadline is Monday, Feb. 25. To ﬁnd out more or to
apply, visit LeadingtheWayYouthSummit.com.

DID YOU LOSE OR FIND SOMETHING ON THE BUS?

Call 311 or visit the Lost Property Ofﬁce at Winnipeg Transit’s Downtown Service Centre, located in
the South West Concourse, under Portage and Main.

Park your car at a Park and Ride location near you
and take the bus to your destination. You’ll enjoy the
convenience and probably save a few bucks in gas
while you’re at it. Visit winnipegtransit.com for more
information.

SAVE SOME GREEN WITH AN ECOPASS

Talk to your HR rep about getting the EcoPass at
your workplace. You and your fellow employees
could save from 5 per cent to 100 per cent on transit.
Visit the website for more information.

Education Minister Nancy Allan announced an extra $4-million in new funding Monday for school divisions to hire
more teachers and reduce class sizes in kindergarten to Grade 3 classrooms over the 2013-2014 school year.

Funding OK’d
for K-3 teachers
Shane Gibson/Metro

Class size. Money to
go toward reducing
number of students
in classrooms
shane
Gibson

shane.gibson@metronews.ca

The Manitoba government
will pump an extra $4-million
to school divisions over the
2013-14 school year with the
aim of reducing the number of
students per teacher in kindergarten to Grade 3 classrooms
provincewide.
The money announced
Monday brings the province’s total funding for their
class size initiative — which
requires all kindergarten to
Grade 3 classes be capped at 20
students by September 2017 —
to $7-million in 2013-14.

New hires

Twelve of the 69 teachers
to be hired in 2013-14 are
slotted for the Winnipeg
School Division.
Source: Nancy Allan

“We know how important
it is when young people get a
good start in the early years,”
said Education Minister Nancy
Allan after announcing the
new funding in front of students at John M. King School
Monday morning. “This is an
important initiative — it’s
going to provide another 69
teachers in school divisions to
reduce class sizes.”
The funding comes over
and above the $27.2-million
in new provincial education
funding Allan announced
for Manitoba schools late

Historic Manitoba.
Website boasts rare
documents, photos
Manitobia, a historical website
that “highlights the role of our
province in the early history of
the country,” has completed its
first phase. “The publication
of the histories of towns and
municipalities goes back to
the 1880s, with an estimated
1,200 known to be in print
and more added all the time,”
reads a press release from the
University of Manitoba, which
partnered on the website with
the Manitoba Historical Society.
“These publications, often a

labour of love for the communities, were produced in small
numbers and are now often
hard to find. They record the
stories, memories and development of towns across Manitoba.
“The availability of this
information online through
Manitobia brings them to the
desktops and tablets of genealogists, historians, researchers
and former Manitobans anywhere and anytime.”
Manitobia can be found at
manitobia.ca. metro

last month.
The province’s Class Size Initiative was announced in 2011
and last year saw 79 teachers
hired on at 31 school divisions.
Allan pointed to a 20 per
cent reduction in kindergarten
to Grade 3 classrooms with 24
or more students and a 13.7
per cent increase in of those
classes with 20 or fewer students as examples of the initiatives early success.
Norm Gould, vice-president
of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society, said reducing the number
of students in Manitoba classrooms is something his organization has long advocated for.
“The less students that you
have in a classroom at the
early levels, means a greater
chance that those teachers can
make valuable connections
and hopefully ensure those
students can have greater success,” he said.

A trial starting in a Winnipeg courtroom could
determine if dealers can
be held responsible for the
death of someone using
their drugs.
Curtis Haas, who is 51,
has pleaded not guilty to
manslaughter in the death
of 20-year-old Wendy Henry.
Henry died in 2007
when she overdosed on
morphine she was allegedly
provided by Haas. Haas is
also charged with drug trafficking and criminal negligence causing death. The
Crown has indicated it will
rely on expert witnesses
and statements given to
police by the accused.
Police have said a conviction could open the door for
similar charges in the future. The trial was supposed
to begin more than six
months ago, but the judge
was forced to postpone it
when a doctor said Haas
was stressed out and had
been rushed to hospital.
the canadian press/CJOB

Human Rights

Museum
welcomes
new vice-chair
The Canadian Museum for
Human Rights has promoted a University of Northern
British Columbia dean to
vice-chair of the Museum’s
board of trustees.
James Moore, Minister of
Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, announced
on Monday the appointment of John Fitzgerald
Young as vice-chair of the
Museum’s board of trustees
for a four-year term.
“I am delighted that
Mr. Young has accepted
the invitation to serve as
vice-chair of the board of
trustees,” said Moore in a
press release. metro

Crime. Teen charged
after serious sexual
assault in Winnipeg
A 14-year-old boy is in police custody after a female
youth was seriously sexually assaulted during a breakin at an Elmwood area
home over the weekend.
Police were called to a
break-in in progress at the
home around 6:30 on Saturday evening, when attending officers found a
male suspect committing
a serious sexual assault involving a female youth victim.

The suspect fled but was
taken into custody without
incident after a short foot
chase.
The teenaged suspect is
charged with break-andenter, two counts of sexual
assault with a weapon, forcible confinement, robbery
with theft, uttering threats
to cause death or bodily
harm, and failing to comply
with the conditions of an
undertaking.
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Crossroads

Myanmar denies
hacking reporters

International Co-operation
Minister Julian Fantino says
money for foreign aid projects is handed out based on
results, not religion.
Fantino defended a
$544,813 federal grant to
Crossroads Christian Communications, a group that
has called homosexuality a
sin, Monday in the House.
New Democrat Helene
Laverdiere claimed many
groups struggle for funding,
while “religious groups
that promote their ideology
have Conservative connections.” The Canadian PRess

Myanmar’s government
denied on Monday that
it was behind a possible
attempt to hack into the
email accounts of journalists who Google warned
may have been the targets
of “state-sponsored attackers.”
At least 12 reporters
received warnings from
Google last week when
they tried to access their
Gmail accounts.

Go online to name
Pluto’s tiny moons

Papal end of days to
be chaotic yet stable
Benedict XVI resigns.
After breaking 600-year
taboo, pope holds great
sway over successor vote
Declaring that he lacks the
strength to do his job, Pope
Benedict XVI announced Monday he will resign Feb. 28 — becoming the first pontiff to step
down in 600 years. His decision
sets the stage for a mid-March
conclave to elect a new leader
for a Catholic Church in deep
turmoil.
The
85-year-old
pope
dropped the bombshell in Latin
during a meeting of Vatican cardinals, surprising even his closest collaborators even though
he had made clear previously
that he would step down if he
became too old or infirm to
carry on.
The move allows the Vatican
to hold a conclave before Easter
to elect a new pope, since the
traditional nine days of mourning following the death of a
pope don’t have to be observed.
It will also allow Benedict to
hold great sway over the choice
of his successor, though he will
not vote. He has already handpicked the bulk of the College
of Cardinals — who will elect
the next pope — to guarantee
his conservative legacy and ensure an orthodox future for the
church.

Benedict in 2007 passed a
decree requiring a two-thirds
majority to elect a pope,
changing the rules established
by John Paul who had decided
that the voting could shift to
a simple majority after about
12 days of inconclusive voting.
Benedict did so to prevent cardinals from merely holding out
until the 12 days had passed to
push through a candidate who
had only a slim majority.
The Vatican stressed that
no specific medical condition
prompted Benedict’s decision,
that he remained fully lucid
and made his decision independently.
It has been obvious to all
that the pope has slowed down
significantly in recent years,
cutting back his foreign travel
and limiting his audiences. He
now goes to and from the altar
in St. Peter’s Basilica on a moving platform to spare him the
long walk down the aisle.
Benedict emphasized that
carrying out the duties of being
pope requires “both strength of
mind and body.”
When Benedict was elected
in 2005 at age 78, he was the
oldest pope chosen in nearly
300 years. At the time, he had
already been planning to retire
as the Vatican’s chief orthodoxy
watchdog to spend his final
years writing in the “peace and
quiet” of his native Bavaria.
Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois,
the archbishop of Paris, called

Succession odds

God does not
play dice —
but we do
Bookmakers have been
quick to offer odds on
candidates to replace Pope
Benedict XVI, with cardinals from Ghana, Nigeria
and Canada among the
early favourites.
Ghana’s Cardinal Peter
Turkson, Canada’s Cardinal
Marc Ouellet and Cardinal
Francis Arinze of Nigeria
lead in betting with BritMonday’s decision a “liberating
act for the future,” saying popes
from now on will no longer feel
compelled to stay on until their
death.
“One could say that in a certain manner, Pope Benedict XVI
broke a taboo,” he told reporters in Paris.
Benedict said he would serve
the church for the remainder
of his days “through a life dedicated to prayer.” The Vatican
said that, immediately after his
February resignation, Benedict
would go to Castel Gandolfo,
the papal summer retreat south
of Rome, and then would live in
a cloistered monastery.
During his tenure, Benedict

ain’s major bookmakers.
William Hill made Turkson — one of the highestranking African cardinals
at the Vatican — its 3-1
favourite Monday, followed
by Ouellet at 7-2 and Arinze
at 4-1. Ladbrokes also
had Turkson as favourite,
followed by Arinze and
Ouellet.
Ireland’s Paddy Power
also offered short odds on
the three, as well as long
odds on unlikely candidates
— including U2 singer Bono
at 1,000-1.
The Associated Press

tried to reawaken Christianity
in Europe, where it had fallen
by the wayside, and return
the church to its traditional
roots, which he felt had been
betrayed by an incorrect interpretation of the modernizing
reforms of the Second Vatican
Council.
His efforts though, were
overshadowed by a worldwide
clerical sex-abuse scandal.
Many of his stated priorities as
pope also fell short. He failed to
establish relations with China,
heal the schism and reunite
with the Orthodox Church or
reconcile with a group of breakaway, traditionalist Catholics.
The Associated Press

Google alert

Feds defend grant
to anti-gay group

P4 and P5

Pope Benedict XVI raised the possibility of resigning in 2010, calling it acceptable for ill health but not for escaping burden or scandal. Franco Origlia/Getty Images file

05

Astronomers announced a
contest Monday to name
the two itty-bitty moons of
Pluto discovered over the
past two years.
Pluto is named for the
Roman lord of the underworld, and its three bigger
moons have related names:
Charon, Nix and Hydra.
Styx and Cerberus
were leading as of Monday
night. The Associated Press

The Associated Press

Jerusalem

Women detained
for male holy garb
Israeli police detained 10
women Monday, including
the sister of comic Sarah
Silverman, as they tried to
pray at a Jerusalem holy
site, the head of a liberal
Jewish women’s group said.
Anat Hoffman, who was
among those detained, said
the women were stopped
because they were wearing
religious garb that Orthodox Judaism reserves for
men. The incident occurred
at the Western Wall.
The Associated Press

FEATURE

06
There are hits ... and there are misses

A jacket named Fred, and
other e-dating horror stories
While there are many success stories thanks to online dating,
there are definitely some dates stemming from the Internet
that don’t turn out so well.

“This girl would barely speak to me on
dates, but as soon as the date was over
(sometimes even before I had made it
back to my car) I would get text messages
or emails about how well she thought things were
going, and asking if I wanted to pursue a relationship
with her.”

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THEY FOUND LOVE I

Click! In the name
love. Edmonton-area
couples have been
meeting online for
years. The difference
now is more admit it,
as growing numbers
sign up in search of
the same success

Miguel D., 33

HEATHER
MCINTYRE

“I stopped talking to a guy that I was getting creepy vibes from and didn’t want to
pursue meeting.

Metro in Edmonton

After being at my parents’ house over Christmas
though, I found out he had been trying to add my
mom to Facebook for a couple of months — but I
never give out any information other than my first
name.”
Jenna B., 23

“After two days of texting, this 25-yearold asked me what I was doing, to which
I replied: ‘Not much, just got out of The
Hobbit.’ He replied: ‘What is that?! Some
weird sex position?’
And now his number is blocked.”
Steph D., 26

“Last year, the day before Valentine’s
Day, I met ‘Fred.’ We met at a downtown
coffee shop. Jason walked in and he
looked nothing like his profile picture.
Wearing jeans and a denim jacket, he took off his
outer leather jacket and flopped it onto a neighbouring chair. When a passerby asked if she could use
the chair, Jason grabbed his jacket and yelled ‘Fred!’
(what he named his jacket) ‘Come back here and
don’t run away again!’
Jason then spanked the poor coat and threw it over
his shoulder.
I was too embarrassed to even look at the girl dragging the chair away.”
Amy C., 23
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Got an e-dating-gone-wrong story of your own?
Email us at readers@metronews.ca.

The first time was the charm
for Heather Watson.
Her initial attempt at online dating through Plenty
of Fish led somewhere she
didn’t think it would: marriage, two kids and a third on
the way.
After moving to Grande
Prairie, Alta., from Edmonton, Watson signed up for
online dating. A couple of
months after registering, she
met Nicholas in November
2008. He became her husband in July 2010.
“At the time I was very
busy managing a femaleclothing store,” said Watson,
now 26. “That didn’t invoke
a lot of interaction with men,
and I had heard that it was
easier to meet men (online).”
According to Plenty of
Fish, Watson is one of the
lucky ones. The website
states: “If you are in contact
with 100 different singles, 50
per cent of the time your
future partner is
in the top
1 0 ,
a n d
17 per
c e n t
of the
time we
can pick
the exact
person you
will end up
dating.”
All in all,
those aren’t
bad odds, said
Edmonton personal relation♥
Robin
ship consultant
Ryan Jakovljevic,
of Evolve Per-

sonal Coaching and Counselling, noting that one in five
couples today begin their relationship online.
The 25-year-old believes
the growth in use of the partnership method has to do
with a fear of rejection, and
a draw toward being able to
“sift through people and find
somebody you think you’re
highly probable to like and
enjoy being around without
having to deal with a face-toface awkward meeting.”
Of course, those who have
signed up to virtually meet
others have done so for different reasons.
For 41-year-old Edmonton
man Robin Taylor, who met
wife Andrea, 40, nine years
ago on Lavalife, it was due to
where he was at in his life.
“I had come out of a longterm relationship and … I
was 32, so my previous dating experience prior to that
was in my 20s. The world
had changed and I wanted
to change
with it,”
he said.
F o r
25-yearold

Mixing technology and romance is no longer seen as taboo — as our models demonstrate
inset, fuel the popularity of e-dating. HEATHER MCINTRE/METRO

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Catherine Dowhaniuk, who
signed up for Lavalife at
the tender age of 16,
it was in order to
make new
friends

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ne

and meet people. She didn’t
expect to meet Mark, now
32. The Spruce Grove couple
married in 2010.
“I think it’s a great way
to meet people, especially
if you’re busy all the time,”
she said. “Whether you make
friendships or actually find
that person that you love, it’s
still a great experience altogether.”
While they preach the success of online dating because
they are proof it can work,
those who met through the
Internet nearly 10 years ago
have a different outlook on
the process of filling out a

• 2002: Friendster and

MySpace are created,
adding another realm
where users can interact
(and fall in love) online.

According to Edmonton personal relationship consultant Ryan Jakovljevic, one in
five couples meet online nowadays.

— now that more and more online success stories, like those of Robin and Andrea Taylor and Mark and Catherine Dowhaniuk,

Quoted

“For the most part, you can try to match up with
other people as best as you can, but of course it still
doesn’t guarantee when you meet that the chemistry will be there. But there’s no harm in trying.”
Ryan Jakovljevic, Edmonton personal relationship consultant

questionnaire and chatting
through email leading up to
a first date now than they did
when they were doing it.
Laura Frey met husband
Jason on Lavalife in 2003. The
Edmonton pair went on their
first date on Valentine’s Day
in 2004, were married the

same day five years later, and
now have two children.
“We didn’t even tell
people how we met,” said
Frey, 32. “If people asked
me, I would totally avoid the
question because I was embarrassed — whereas now I
just tell people because it’s

normal and everyone does it.”
In fact, according to Lavalife, more than 1.7 million
members exchange more
than 700,000 messages every
day. Plenty of Fish boasts
more than seven million conversations daily.
That change in attitude,
and the growing number
of people signing up for the
sites looking to find a match,
prove there is less of a stigma
about the idea in 2013 than
there used to be.
But that doesn’t mean it’s
easy.
Valerie Bielenda didn’t
meet her husband, Mark,

whom she married in 2006,
until signing up for Lavalife a
second time in 2004.
“When I went back online
the second time, the first
guy I met, he was kind of a
sleaze,” said the 36-year-old
Edmonton woman. “So when
you meet somebody like that
it’s discouraging because
you’re thinking, ‘His profile
picture is nice, his pictures
are nice — seems like a nice
guy’ and then you meet him
and all he wants is one thing.
“So it’s discouraging, but
… you just have to keep at it.”
Criticisms of online dating
are that the websites promote
hooking up, social isolation
and easy options that could
attract wandering eyes.
Jakovljevic
admits
it
doesn’t always work.
“Dating is largely based
on whether or not you feel
that attraction, that sort of
connection like maybe you
have known this person for a
long time even if you haven’t.
And we still don’t know quite
what on paper creates that —
is it similarities? Is it differences? Is it experiences? And
although we’re getting closer,
online dating still hasn’t
found a way to describe that.”
But it is now a mainstream
way to form relationships
that will succeed and fail,
perhaps on a similar level as
the ones that start in the grocery store, at the coffee shop,
through friends or in the bar,
he added.
“I would say that more
people succeed than not, put
it that way.”
Exclusively online
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dating, including
infographics, video and
more, go to metronews.
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HE HAD COFFEE,
SHE HAD TEA
If you’re searching for your soulmate online,
the Bielendas’ love match may give you hope
When Valerie Bielenda went
on a date to a Second Cup in
downtown Edmonton back
in 2004, she took something
most don’t on dates.
“I had a friend go and sit
so that he could watch me to
make sure it was safe,” she
said with a laugh.
That was because she was
meeting Mark, with whom
she had initiated a conversation on Lavalife.
There was no need to worry
though, as the couple chatted
until the coffee shop closed,
then moved on to Denny’s,
where they continued talking.
The pair had started chatting online about a week before they had met.
Valerie, now 36, had been
on the site before, and was trying it for a second time.
“Being older — 27, 28 —
it’s harder to meet people
because everybody in your
age group is already married
or paired up with somebody,”
she said.
Mark, now 38, said it was
simply tough to meet girls at
bars, and nothing transpired

report estimates that three
million Americans had entered
into long-term relationships or
marriage as a result of meeting
on a dating website.

• 2004: Facebook

is created.

• 2006: Social-

networking
website
Twitter is
created.

• 2007: Online Dating

Magazine says more
than 20 million people
visit at least one online
dating website a day.

• 2009: An eHarmony

survey finds that nearly
five per cent of U.S. marriages are from matches
made on the site.

with those met elsewhere.
The duo married on May
20, 2006, in front of 150
guests.
Many friends, mainly of
Mark’s, still don’t know how
they met.
“They don’t know, so surprise!” laughed Valerie. “We
just kind of never told them
that we met online. I think,
at the time, they would have
bugged him a lot, but it is
what it is. We’re older now,
we don’t care.
“And it clearly worked
out.”
That — and it’s more mainstream, added Mark.
“This is just another way of
meeting your soulmate.”
As the Bielendas, who still
remember what one another
was wearing, as well as what
they had to drink on that first
date, await adoption news,
they do ponder what will be
the next way people meet
their partners.
“Twitter,” said Valerie.
“Isn’t that how you meet
people nowadays?”
HEATHER MCINTYRE/METRO

Part 2 of 3
YESTERDAY
Is traditional dating
dead?
TODAY
The rise of the
e-dating jungle
TOMORROW
E-dating success: How
to shine online

08

business

metronews.ca
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Who’s hiding the horsemeat?
Bogus beef. As equine
flesh turns up in frozen
dinners, officials realize
supply-chain fraud may
be quite widespread
A maze of trading between
meat wholesalers has made it
increasingly difficult to trace
the origins of food — enabling
horsemeat disguised as beef to

be sold in frozen meals across
Quoted
Europe. France’s agricultural
minister said Monday that
regulators must find a way “There are people who
“out of the fog.”
are out there to defraud,
The European horsemeat who are looking to cheat.”
scandal — where the cheaper
meat was substituted for beef France’s agriculture minister Stephane Le Foll,
speaking to RTL radio.
in everything from burgers
to frozen lasagna — is growing, involving more countries, riot traders were part of a
companies and more finger- supply chain that resulted in
horsemeat being labelled as
pointing by the day.
beef before it was included in
France says Romanian
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butchers, and Dutch and Cyp- frozen dinners including lasa-

gna, moussaka and a similar
French dish called hachis parmentier.
Swedish officials were
meeting Monday with executives from the biggest supermarket chains to get an overview of how widespread the
fraud is, while in Paris top
French government officials
and meat producers were
gathering to get a handle on
the crisis, which has snared a
French food processing company. The Associated Press

These Findus Beef Moussaka packs were removed from shelves in a shop
in Ville d’Avray, outside Paris, on Monday, after horsemeat was discovered
in some frozen meals. A complex web of trading between wholesalers in
Europe is making it difficult for officials to figure out exactly who is passing
off horsemeat as beef. Christophe Ena/The Associated Press

Air travel. WestJet to
launch new Encore
regional service in B.C.
Canadian passengers flying
in Western Canada will see
some relief from rising airfares this summer as WestJet’s new Encore regional
service takes flight in June,
analysts say.
The airline will add Fort
St. John, B.C. to its network
and use the first two 78-seat
Bombardier Q400s on routes
between
Vancouver
and
Victoria, and Calgary to Nanaimo, B.C. Additional routes
will be added as it takes delivery of five more planes by the
end of the year.
“We are just getting
started,” said WestJet Encore
president Ferio Pugliese, calling
the upcoming launch a “historic moment.” WestJet Encore’s

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$3,500 a day, plus expenses,
for a three-member panel to
review the E. coli outbreak
at an Alberta meat plant
last fall. The federal government last week launched
a review of the outbreak
of the potentially deadly
bacteria at the XL Foods Inc.
plant in Brooks, Alta.
A cabinet order dated
Feb. 5 shows Ronald Lewis,
B.C.’s former chief veterinary officer, will be paid up
to $1,300 a day to chair the
panel. The Canadian Press

WestJet says its entry into a new market
typically lowers fares by up to 50 per cent
and the arrival of Encore is already causing Air Canada to respond with its own
fare cuts on some of the routes.

introductory fare on the Fort
St. John routes to Vancouver
and to Calgary are $109 plus
taxes, or up to about $172.
After increasing its regional service in the West, WestJet
plans to introduce Encore to
Eastern Canada in about nine
to 12 months.
The Canadian Press

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voices

metronews.ca
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

go love
yourself
OK everyone: we need to resurface from underneath the
piles of candied sweethearts
Jessica Napier
and overpriced floral bouquets
metronews.ca
and take a second to breathe.
Valentine’s Day can be a lovely opportunity to express affection for others, but I’d like
you to forget about that for a moment and turn inward
to focus on another important kind of love: self love. No,
not the home-alone-with-your-laptop-and-a-box-of-tissues
kind of self love, but the happiness that comes from being
truly confident with who you are.
Cliché as it might sound, you can’t be happy with a
partner unless you’re happy with yourself. Making a conscious decision to love yourself — and that includes embracing all of the so-called flaws that make you you — is
a prerequisite to accomplishing your life goals and being
content both in and out of romantic relationships.
People born into the
millennial generation,
I don’t need your opinion
with birthdays somewhere
between the early 1980s
Sometimes the
and the early 2000s, are
often accused of having a
hardest part about
little too much self love.
loving yourself is
We’ve been labelled as a
learning how to block
coddled cohort of entitled
brats, children spoiled with
out the cynics and
admiration by our helimanage your own
copter parents who then
inner monologue
grow up into narcissistic
young adults obsessed with
of self-doubt.
instagramming our own self
portraits.
But is having an inflated self-esteem really such a bad
thing?
My own piano-lesson-funding parents constantly
reassured me that I could be or do anything I wanted and
today, aside from momentary bouts of economy-induced
insecurity, I believe them. I have an embarrassing number
of ‘selfies’ on my iPhone camera roll because sometimes I
think my hair looks really good.
I have wonderful friends, a good job and I can be quite
funny sometimes, so I’m told. I don’t love myself unconditionally every moment of every day but overall, I think
I’m pretty great.
Of course, I’ve read enough scathing reader comments
online to know that there are countless individuals who
would disagree with me on my self-evaluation of greatness, but that’s OK.
Sometimes the hardest part about loving yourself is
learning how to block out the cynics and manage your
own inner monologue of self-doubt.
I’m not advocating a cultural shift toward egotistical
self-interest, but I think we could all do a better job at
feeling good about ourselves and showing it off.
Canadians have a habit of being apologetic and selfdeprecating. It’s arguably a lot easier — and often more
comedic — to simply make fun of ourselves rather than
display our confidence outwardly.
But we shouldn’t undermine our own self-worth in the
name of modesty and agreeableness.

09

Skirting around winter blahs

she
says...

Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images

Carnival festivities

Satire in float formation

Umbrella men in
skirts revel at fest

Political parody is
central to Carnival

On a cold Monday, Germans are in a mood for
dancing.
Revellers in Herbstein
take part in Springerzug,
literally “jumping parade,”
a local Carnival tradition.
Rose Monday is the
high point of the annual
Carnival in the region between Mainz, Cologne and
Düsseldorf, where since
1823 people celebrate
free-spirited merrymaking
before Lent. Metro

Floats with satirical portrayals
of politicians are a traditional
part of Carnival celebrations
in Germany’s Rhineland.
One float in Cologne
this year depicts Chancellor
Angela Merkel as a mother
sow, with piglets wearing
European flags suckling at
her teats.
In Düsseldorf, Merkel was
paraded through the streets
with a Hitler-like moustache
being drawn on by a Greek.

Carnival facts

• Time. Carnival week
begins on the Thursday
before Ash Wednesday
and finishes on Ash
Wednesday.
• Origins. In the early
19th century, fun-loving
expression (using parody
and mockery) was seen
as an act of defiance
against Prussian and
French occupation. In derision against the orderliness of the Prussian soldiers, locals would don
extravagant costumes

and carry wooden rifles
with flowers protruding
from the barrels.
• Money-maker. Almost
$2.7 billion US of revenue
is generated by the carnival season in Germany,
according to German
Carnival Association.
• Candy cache. During
Cologne’s Shrove Monday
(Rose Monday) procession, 330 tons of candy,
700,000 chocolate bars
and 220,000 chocolate
boxes are thrown into the
crowds lining the streets.

Metro

Twitter
Register at metropolitanpanel.ca
and take the quick poll

A jet-sized asteroid will come so close to
Earth this week that it will be between us
and our weather satellites. Are you scared?
17%

Yes, that’s
too close
for
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Looking for love this Valentine’s Day? Look within.

83%

No, if NASA
says don’t
worry, I
don’t
worry

@jrockarolla:
•••••
The new Pope should be decided
with a boxing match just because
I want to hear somebody official
say “rope-a-pope.”
@Iam_Canadian:
•••••
I bet the Pope has a horrible Retirement Plan. He had to work
until 85. If he planned better he
could have been done by 70!
@jeffbbraun:
•••••
Carly Rae Jepsen shut out at

Grammys, Pope retires next day.
Coincidence?
@bensigurdson:
•••••
My first day as copywriter at @
DirectFocus and the Pope resigns. Coincidence?
@CarChen:
•••••
Guess they’ll be doing job interviews for the new Pope job? How
do you prepare your resume?
Find references?

•••••
The 23rd official James
Bond film seems as fresh as
the first did 51 years ago.
Daniel Craig’s third stint as
007 finds him wounded and
besieged, finally dealing
with the calendar’s cruel
accounting.
Bond must fight a
threat that is at once
more understandable and
more complex than in the
past. Leering menace Silva
(Javier Bardem) has a computer drive containing
a list of NATO officials
secretly embedded with
terrorist organizations. He
plans to expose five at a
time, putting many lives
at risk. Can Bond stop
him?
An early chase scene in
Istanbul, which thrillingly
recalls the parkour start
of Casino Royale, raises
doubt — and suspense.
007 still scores with
the ladies, who are no
longer “Bond girls,” but
women. Dame Judi Dench
is back as spy boss M,
turning in a steely performance. Ralph Fiennes,
Ben Wishaw and Albert
Finney add their own star
power.
Director Sam Mendes,
a series newcomer, skillfully blends 007 tradition
with innovation, making
viewers fall for Bond all
over again.
Extras includes commentaries and multiple
featurettes.
PETER HOWELL

Comedian Wanda Sykes brings
her standup act to Niagara Falls
this week, so we wanted to
check in with her about oldfashioned tourist destinations
and comparing American and
Canadian audiences. She also
has some notes for Jodie Foster

following Foster’s headlinegrabbing Golden Globes speech
last month.
Is there anything you do to
modify your show for Canadian audiences?
Not really. You know, I might
not do as much with American politics or something,
but mainly it’s about the
same. I don’t really switch it
too much. Now my act is so
much more about personal
life and family and kids and
stuff, so I think it’s a little
more relatable. Canadians
like to be made fun of. It’s
kind of like they expect it,
and if you don’t make fun
of them, then they’re like,
“Come on.” Like they ask for
it, it’s so funny.
When I think of Niagara

Falls, I immediately think of
old-fashioned, hokey honeymoons. What’s your association with it?
I still think about the people
going over it in a barrel. I guess
that. But yeah, you think of
the hokey honeymoon with
the champagne bathtub and
the heart-shaped waterbed and
stuff like that. But I was told
that I would not have any of
that in my room. But I just did
Leno, and he’s played there,
and he told me that you can
see the Falls right from your
room, and it’s really fun and
nice to look at for about 90
seconds, and then you have to
pee. But that might be an old
man thing. We’ll see if I’ll be
peeing a lot.

Did you just call Jay Leno an
old man?
I will call Jay Leno an old
man to his face. He knows
that.
You handled your coming
out of the closet very gracefully. Did you happen to see
Jodie Foster’s speech at the
Golden Globes?
I did. I was confused. I was
really confused, because I
was like, “Wait a minute,
is she making a speech and
taking up all this time really
to say that she’s not coming
out?” I mean, then just don’t
come out. To me it was more
confusing than what she was
trying to do. It just didn’t
work for me, I should just
say that.

Naomi puts her best face forward
Model search. One
of the world’s original
supermodels turns to
TV to find the visage to
represent ULTA Beauty
NED
EHRBAR

Metro World News in Hollywood

Naomi Campbell is heading to
TV, joining fellow models Coco
Rocha and Karolina Kurkova
along with photographer Nigel Barker with the Face, their
search for the model who can
best represent ULTA Beauty. It’s

a daunting task, but the 42-yearold Campbell knows what she’s
looking for.
Reality TV is the new model
training ground
“There is no model handbook,”
Campbell says. “Coming from
the ’90s, we basically just had
to learn as we went along and,
of course, I would ask Iman
or other models who were
around me to show me how
to do things. But I think things
have changed and now I think
a show like this is absolutely
needed.”
She knows talent
“We’re looking for someone

who catches your eye, is
driven, passionate, can take
direction,” she says. “It’s someone that, you know, walks
into the room and takes your
breath away. We are looking
for a supermodel like ourselves
that can be the new Naomi,
the new Karolina, the new
Coco.”
The girls better not take this
opportunity for granted
“I was always told in the
beginning the big end goal
was you work, work, work,
work and then you get this
big contract at the end, like
ULTA Beauty, which is in 500
stores across America,” she

says. “This is a big deal for
someone to win this contract.
They instantly become a
household name.”
It’s time for her to give back
“I mean, I’ve been asked, like,
for the last 12 years to do
television,” Campbell admits.
“For me, what was attractive
about (the Face was) just the
whole thing about mentoring.
I’ve been working for 26
years, and I felt like I do have
something that I can share
from the business of 26 years
under my belt and giving it
over to young, hopeful supermodels who want to be in our
business today.”

Naomi Campbell GETTY IMAGES

dish

metronews.ca
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

11

METRO DISH
OUR TAKE ON THE WORLD OF CELEBRITIES
The Word

Angelina Jolie

Jolie pops head out of
hiding to present
film industry honour
Taylor Swift

Angelina Jolie has kept a
fairly low profile lately, sticking around London with her
family while she filmed her
upcoming Maleficent and
Brad Pitt worked on World
War Z. But the busy mother
of six made a surprise appearance in L.A. this weekend,

all photos getty images

Anger in English:
Swift gives Grammys
her best British Style
Taylor Swift used her
opening slot at the Grammys this weekend to
offer a not-so-subtle dig at
ex-boyfriend Harry Styles.
Before a rousing chorus
of We are Never Ever Getting Back Together, Swift
offered, “So he calls me

presenting a lifetime
achievement award to cinematographer Dean Semler
at the American Society of
Cinematographers Awards,
according to Us Weekly.
Semler shot Jolie’s directorial
debut, In the Land of Blood
and Honey.

Twitter
@ricky_martin
•••••
The #Pope resigns? I didn’t know that was
even possible. Apparently, the last time a
pope resigned was the year 1415 #IfYouRintrested

up and he’s like, ‘I still
love you,’” copping a British accent in an obvious
nod to the One Direction
member. “And I’m like,
‘I’m sorry, I’m busy opening up the Grammys. And
we’re never getting back
together. Like, ever.’”

@SarahKSilverman
•••••
When I die my only wish will be to have a religion
started based on me (like where I’m the star)& also
my face on money
@DanaDelaney
•••••
Now that gays can marry, the Pope resigns. #metsomeone

@ABFoundation
I will not let the weather defeat me...

Get in on the
Grammy gossip
the
word

Dorothy Robinson
scene@metronews.ca

Jessica Chastain

Chastain feels no
disdain toward fellow
industry females

Jessica Chastain doesn’t
appreciate the rumours out
there that she and fellow
Oscar nominee Jennifer
Lawrence are feuding.
“I find it very sad that
media makes up bogus stories about women fighting
in this industry,” Chastain
writes in a post to her
Facebook page. “Why do
we support the myth that
women are competitive and

cannot get along? I think all
of the actresses recognized
this year have given incredible performances. But
more important, they’ve
all shown themselves to be
filled with generosity and
kindness. I’ve done two
photo shoots with Jennifer
Lawrence over the years
and have found her to be
utterly charming and a
great talent.”

Sunday night was so big
we’re still talking about it
Tuesday (sorry, Pope).
The drama surrounds
Chris Brown, of course, because it always does. Brown,
who already rubbed most
people the wrong way after
he refused to give a standing
ovation to Frank Ocean when
he won over Brown for best
urban contemporary album,
partied hard at a Hollywood
nightclub with Rihanna. TMZ
was there to snap pictures
of the two of them smoking
what appears to be a joint
(shocking!) and leaving the
club around three in the
morning.
The ratings for the 2013
Grammy Awards were big,
but not big enough to top

2012’s numbers. Why? No
dead pop icon. Last year’s
record audience was because the awards show was
held the day after Whitney
Houston’s death. But still,
this year’s music-filled
awards show delivered
28.37 million viewers.
Missing from Sunday
night’s party? Justin Bieber,
who sat out the Grammys
this year. Instead, the pop
star decided instead to do
a livestream web chat with
fans during the awards
ceremony, but technical
difficulties scuttled those
plans.
“Livestream is over
capacity and not letting
me in the room. Give me
a second,” Bieber tweeted,
letting his frustration show.
“Since nothing is working
and I’m super-upset, I feel
I gotta make it up to you. I
should post a new song on
Twitter so you can still be
excited.”
Bieber had decided to
forgo the awards show
after not receiving a single
nomination.

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WELLNESS

metronews.ca
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

The dating food guide
Dr. Dawn Harper, a health expert on the award winning British TV show Embarrassing Bodies, talks us through
what we should and shouldn’t eat or drink before, during and after a hot date.
ROMINA MCGUINNESS

LIFE

romina.mcguinness@metro.lu

BEFORE
TAKE A PROBIOTIC If you know
that you suffer from gas, taking a
probiotic (as a supplement or in
your yogurt or cereal) will help
with your digestion.

DURING THE DATE

SKIP THE SPAGHETTI If I were
going out to impress, I wouldn’t
order a pasta-based dish. I’ve yet to
meet somebody who could eat
spaghetti easily — it may dribble
down your face. Choose something
you know you can eat relatively
elegantly.

AFTER

SKIP THE ESPRESSO End the meal
with a peppermint tea or a sweet.
This will freshen your breath and
help ease digestion.

FILL UP ON H20 Drink plenty of
fluids. A dehydrated mouth is a
smelly one.

PACE YOURSELF Eat slowly! It
can take 20 minutes for the
hormones secreted in your
stomach to get the message
through to the brain indicating that you’re full. If you eat
too fast, you may have overdone it by the time your brain
goes, “Wait, slow down!”
And then you’ll be left with
that horrible feeling that
you’ve got a brick lodged in
your stomach.
WATCH YOUR MOUTH
Spicy or garlicky foods can
cause bad breath. Be conscious of what your other
half is eating and follow
suit. Tip: if your dish comes
with a parsley garnish,
chew on that as it will help
get rid of any nasty smells
in your mouth.

DON’T DRINK ON AN EMPTY
STOMACH But if you’re going for
dinner, you can’t afford to be too
full either. Have something small,
like a cookie and a glass of milk,
to line your stomach.

…and other
health issues
you might want
to be aware of
Teeth. According to Harper, we
should all be brushing our
teeth twice a day and flossing at least once. Doing so
will remove the tiny particles lodged between the
teeth, which can become a
source of bad breath when
broken down by bacteria.
You can also use a tongue
scraper.

BEAT THE BLOAT Constipation
causes bloating. Increase the
fibre in your diet by eating more
fruit and vegetables two to three
days before the date.

AVOID GASSY FOODS Our body
produces around two litres of
bowel gas a day ... but you don’t
want to be burping or breaking
wind when you’re trying to have a
romantic evening, do you? Foods
such as beans, pulses, onions,
cabbage, sprouts, cauliflower and
artichokes increase production of
gas. Avoid any awkwardness by
removing these foods from your
diet for a while.

Close encounters

DON’T SAY WE DIDN’T WARN
YOU… If you were a complete pig
at dinner, then you’re probably
going to want to lie down, hold
your belly and groan. You won’t
be up for a night of passion.

PRACTISE SAFE SEX … The
nicest people can and do get
sexually transmitted diseases.
You might be out with Mr. or
Ms. Wonderful — but genitals
don’t know that, and neither do
the bugs that party down there.
Make sure you use protection —
if you’re not crippled by stomach cramps from eating too
much food, that is.

Food hygiene. Avoid buffet
style meals, warns Harper:
“Food that’s been out
hanging around at room
temperature for a long
while is more likely to be
contaminated.”
Body odor. You sweat, you
wash— makes sense, right?
Ironically, that’s actually
the worst thing you could
do. “Fresh sweat doesn’t
smell— pungent BO is the
result of sweat being broken
down by the bacteria on
your skin,” says Harper. “This
is because the skin is slightly
acidic, so when you use
a normal perfumed soap,
which is slightly alkaline,
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the skin and creating an
environment that’s better
for the bacteria to grow.
It’s a vicious cycle. The
bacteria have had a chance
to replicate and proliferate
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peppers (often called the “Holy
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some chicken stock, and andouille sausage.
By the way, this soup is
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1.

In saucepan over medium,
heat oil. Add sausage and cook,
stirring occasionally, until lightly browned, 5 minutes. Use slotted spoon to transfer to a bowl.

Banana Bourbon Bread
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Bananas Foster and bread pudding are two of the most popular desserts in New Orleans.
So in honour of the over-thetop nature of Mardi Gras, this
more-is-better approach combines them into one.
Top a simple baked bananapecan bread pudding with a
classic hard sauce — including a healthy dose of bourbon,
of course — which becomes a
gooey icing that melts into the
dessert and hardens as it cools.
If that’s not your style, top
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Cocoa nibs in a
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Nibs are bits of the whole
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layer. Bake 15 minutes, or until
lightly toasted. Set aside.

3. In bowl, whisk mashed ba-

nanas, eggs and sugar. While
whisking, pour in the hot
milk, then add vanilla and allspice. Gently mix in toasted
bread cubes and pecans, then
spoon mix into prepared pan.
Bake until puffed and cooked
through, about 30 minutes.

4. Meanwhile, prepare
sauce. In bowl, use an electric mixer to beat the butter
until smooth and soft. Add

the powdered sugar and beat
until well incorporated. Add
the bourbon and stir until
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A lump sum RRSP loan can help reduce your gross income, which reduces the amount of taxes you owe. Comstock Images/thinkstock

When is a loan right for you?
Ylva
Van Buuren
For Metro

It’s a common scenario at tax
time — the accountant preparing your personal tax return calls to say that you owe
money ... and you should buy
RRSPs to reduce the tax bill. If
extra funds are not available,
should you rush out and get
a loan?
“Unfortunately,
most
people make RRSP loan de-

cisions on the spur of the
moment,” says Stephanie
Holmes-Winton, CEO, The
Money Finder, Halifax, and a
member of Advocis, The Financial Advisors Association
of Canada. “And it should
really be a thought-out part of
their financial plan.”
Reducing your tax bill is
one of the reasons why many
people buy RRSPs — and that
makes sense, says Anthony
Williams, Canadian Institute
of Financial Planning, vice-

president of academic affairs. A lump sum RRSP loan
will help reduce your gross
income, which reduces the
amount of taxes you owe.
At the same time, putting
a lump sum amount in all at
once allows your money to
grow more over time, Williams said, because it’s in
there longer — compared to
if you put in the same amount
but made monthly contributions.
Another reason people

take a large sum RRSP loan
is because it may trigger a
tax refund, but that can work
against you, too, if you aren’t
careful.
Here are three scenarios
where you might want to reconsider an RRSP loan:
You aren’t a disciplined
money manager
“Borrowing money to get a
tax refund and then spending
that refund on ‘whatever’ is
not recommended,” Holmes-

Winton said. “You end up paying the loan back with aftertax dollars plus interest.”
It’s better to apply the refund cheque to the RRSP loan
and lower the principal. Some
banks structure RRSP loans so
the first payment won’t apply
until after you get the tax refund.
The new monthly payment
will not be manageable
A loan means there is a debt
obligation and you will have

to have the cash flow to make
the monthly payment. Some
people have to supplement
their income, Holmes-Winton
said, by using credit cards and
lines of credit and they end
up in worse shape.
The loan costs more
than you think
Sometimes there are payment
free periods of time, but extra
interest costs or administrative
fees. Always read the fine print,
and don’t rush into anything.

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Contributions.
Program
allows you to
upgrade your
education
MICHELLE
WILLIAMS
For Metro

In recent years, the number
of Canadians of all ages starting over in new careers has
hit an all-time high. Maybe
you have always wanted to
explore new opportunities
— or perhaps you have been
caught in your company’s
downsizing and you need to
establish yourself in a new vocation. The quandary is how
to support yourself and your
family while you retrain.
“A new government program is making education
upgrading easier for Canadians,” explains Serena
Cheng, director of Wealth
Management and investment
adviser with Richardson GMP

in Toronto. “The Lifelong
Learning Plan allows you to
use your RRSP contributions
to pay for training for you or
your spouse.”
The Lifelong Learning
Plan (LLP) allows you to take
out up to $10,000 annually
from your RRSPs to a total
of $20,000 in more than a
four-year period for you or
your spouse, but not for your
children’s education. The
best part — you will continue
to be sheltered from paying
taxes on the withdrawal. You
will have to repay your RRSP
over a 10-year period; any
funds not repaid after the 10year deadline will count as
income and be taxed.
To participate in the program, there are conditions to
meet. While you can use the

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funds to pay any expenses,
you must be registered full
time (disabled individuals
may be registered part time)
in a qualifying program at an
approved educational institution. You must reside in Canada and complete your program before 71 years of age.
Participation in the LLP

program is available as many
times as you want over your
lifetime, provided you pay
back your RRSP contribution before you apply for a
new program. Typically, repayments must start in the
fifth year after the first withdrawal to avoid tax penalties.
“This plan is a great incen-

tive to get retrained if you
are starting over in a new
career, but you want to make
sure you see yourself moving into the particular field
you’re training for before
you decide to dissolve your
assets,” Cheng said. “It would
be a shame to lose out on
the deferred growth of your

RRSP and discover part way
through the program that
this isn’t the field for you.”
For more information on
the Lifelong Learning Plan
and more ways to use RRSP
contributions to train for a
new career, contact a certified financial planner or your
local financial institution.

When one person in a
married or commonlaw couple has a much
higher income than the
other, it’s a great idea to
open a spousal RRSP, especially if you intend to
retire before age 65, says
Dean Owen, a personal
financial adviser in Saskatoon and past chair of
ADVOCIS, The Financial
Advisors Association of
Canada.
A spousal RRSP allows
a couple to build up the
pool of savings for the
person with the lower
income so that at retirement there are equal
amounts of RRSPs.
“Basically, it’s a smart
tax move with the intention of income splitting,”
says Anthony Williams,
vice-president of academic affairs, Canadian
Institute of Financial
Planning. “You’re shifting income from the
higher income earning
spouse to the lower
income earning spouse
with the objective of
reducing the accumulative family tax bill.”
How does it work?
The spouse with the
higher income opens —
and contributes to — a
spousal RRSP in the partner’s name. How much
the contributor puts into
the RRSP depends on
what their contribution
limit is that year. If it’s
$20,000, for example,
they can put the entire
amount into their own
RRSP, they can put the
entire amount into the
spousal RRSP, or they
can split the amount
between the two plans.
But they can’t go over
the limit, Owen said.
While the contributor
gets the tax deduction
today, “the idea is to
even out your retirement
savings so you can keep
the taxes you pay when
you are retired as low
as possible,” Owen said.
Instead of withdrawing
$60,000 from one person’s fund, for example,
each person withdraws
$30,000 and is taxed at a
lower tax bracket.
One caveat is that
funds must not be
withdrawn for at least
three years. If they are
withdrawn, the money
is attributed back to the
contributor who pays
the tax bill. When withdrawal occurs after this
attribution period, the
tax is paid by the owner.

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RRSPs can be a good way to finance a home purchase. iStockphoto/thinkstock

Homebuyers can take
advantage of new plan
Michelle
williams
For Metro

Your dream home just posted
a “For Sale” sign — but your
assets are tied up in RRSPs.
Do you let this opportunity
pass you by?
“Not at all,” says Serena
Cheng, director of Wealth
Management and investment
adviser with Richardson GMP
in Toronto. “RRSPs can be a
great way to finance a home
purchase. If you’re a firsttime buyer, take advantage
of your RRSP investments to
buy a home with the federal
Home Buyer’s Plan.”
Home Buyer’s Plan (HBP)
is a government program
that allows first-time buyers to withdraw as much as

$25,000 from RRSP contributions to buy or build a home
for themselves or a related
disabled person. “The biggest benefits are that you
don’t have to pay taxes on
this amount, and you have 15
years to pay it back to your
RRSP fund,” Cheng said. “And
if you are purchasing the
home with your spouse or
partner, you can each withdraw $25,000.”
One firm condition is
that payments to reimburse
your account must be at
least 1/15th of the amount
each year. If you can’t repay
annually, you must pay tax
on the amount. Among the
other conditions: You must
reside in Canada and purchase your home in Canada;
the home must be your pri-

mary residence; you must be
a first-time buyer or have not
owned your principal residence for a period of at least
five years; and you must be
participating in this plan for
the first time.
“The HBP is a good way to
get your hands on cash for a
down payment, but one disadvantage is that you do lose
out on the deferred growth of
the RRSP,” Cheng said. “You
also have to be committed to
paying it back on schedule to
protect yourself against tax
penalties.
For more information on
the Home Buyer’s Plan and
more ways to use RRSP contributions to purchase your
home, contact a certified financial planner or your local
financial institution.

Pitfalls investors should avoid
Talbot
Boggs

Smart Investing

While the registered retirement savings plan (RRSP) is
a great vehicle to help Canadians save for their retirement, there are some pitfalls
that investors may not know
about and should try to avoid.
Many people, for example, confuse their contribution limit with the deduction limit.
The deduction limit is set
at 18 per cent of your previous year’s earned income,
up to a dollar limit, which
changes every year. The maximum dollar limit for the
2012 tax year is $22,970, up
from $22,450 in 2011, and
will rise to $23,820 in 2013. It
is contained in the notice of
assessment that you get each
year from the Canada Revenue Agency after you have
filed your return.
Another pitfall can be saving too much in your RRSP
and having too many ac-

Try not to make the same mistakes
other investors make when it
comes to RRSPs. F1online/thinkstock

counts. An RRSP of between
$700,000 and $2 million, for
example, may sound great,
but that money will be taxed
at some point. A retiree with
such a large plan would be in
the 46 per cent tax bracket
and would have their Old
Age Security (OAS) clawed
back.
Having your financial
assets spread over several
plans can lead to a disorganized investment strategy,
duplication,
inappropriate
asset allocation and paying

more fees than if all investments were consolidated in
one account.
Waiting to the last minute
to make your contribution
is another common pitfall.
It can lead to making emotional decisions or parking
the money for too long on
the sidelines. By contributing early or making regular
contributions during the year
you get the tax-sheltered returns starting sooner and get
the advantages of dollar cost
averaging.
Many people also may be
investing in the wrong things
in their RRSP. As a general
rule, it’s better to invest in
fixed income in your RRSP
and equities outside of your
RRSP in a non-registered account.
The Canadian Press
Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based
business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the
finance, retail, manufacturing
and other industrial sectors.

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SPORTS

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Olympics

SPORTS

1 sport on block
for 2020 Games

Winnipeg Jets defenceman Zach Bogosian is close to returning to the lineup. The blue-liner had off-season wrist surgery and took full part in practice Monday.

Buff will take flight,
Bogosian grounded
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NHL. Jets’ top
defencemen participate
in practice, while goalie
Pavelec remains a
question mark
It looks like the Winnipeg
Jets will be able to count highscoring defenceman Dustin Byfuglien among the able-bodied
as early as Tuesday’s game
against the Philadelphia Flyers.
“Byfuglien looks like a player for the game,” coach Claude
Noel said Monday.
But the team’s other absent
defenceman, Zach Bogosian, is
more of a question mark.

“Bogosian probably needs
to practise a little bit,” Noel
said. “As I said before we want
to put him (in) a position
where he has a chance to succeed.”
Bogosian, who had off-season wrist surgery and hasn’t
played a game since this lockout-shortened season began,
took full part in practice Monday and said he was feeling
good.
“You can’t really be game
ready until you’re actually in
the game but I’ve had a couple
of good practices with the guys
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and stuff like that and I haven’t
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win in his second start this
season in beating Ottawa
1-0 on Saturday.

corner a little bit and hopefully
I’m back soon.”
Byfuglien was the No.
2-scoring defenceman in the
NHL last season but he has
missed the last five games with
an undisclosed injury he sustained on a road trip to Florida.
Noel says they’ve missed

his offensive talents as well as
his size in the defensive zone.
At six-foot-five and 265 pounds
he can be very effective at stopping the puck and getting it
moved out.
Goaltender Ondrej Pavelec
also remains a question mark,
after missing the Jets’ last
game in Ottawa with a flu-like
illness.
He says he feels better but
wouldn’t say he was 100 per
cent after eating for the first
time since he fell ill.
“I’m ready to go,” he said.
“The last two days I had two
practices. I feel better now. I
finally ate something yesterday ... It’s the coach’s decision.”

IOC leaders are meeting
this week to decide which
sport to drop from the
Olympic program and how
to deal with the fallout
from the Lance Armstrong
doping scandal.
At a two-day IOC executive board meeting opening
Tuesday, the IOC will also
review preparations for the
Winter Olympics in Sochi
— less than a year away
— and the 2016 Summer
Games in Rio de Janeiro,
and select a short list of
finalists for the 2018 Youth
Olympics.
Modern pentathlon, a
tradition-steeped contest
invented by the founder of
the modern Olympics, is expected to face close scrutiny
when the board considers
which of the current 26
summer Olympic sports to
remove from the program
of the 2020 Games. Taking
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NHL

No punishment
for Grabovski
The NHL will not suspend
Toronto Maple Leafs forward Mikhail Grabovski for
an alleged biting incident
in Saturday’s game against
Montreal.
The league said there
was no conclusive evidence that Grabovski bit
Canadiens forward Max
Pacioretty.
Pacioretty says he got
a precautionary tetanus
shot after the incident in
Toronto’s 6-0 victory. The
forward emerged from the
skirmish showing his arm
to the officials and claiming
that Grabovski bit him.
“It was an emotional
game,” Pacioretty said
Monday. “It got out of hand.
People were fired up.”
THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Sun rising on Jays’ season
The Smashing Pumpkins’ Tonight, Tonight blared from
the press box Monday as Jose
Bautista cracked balls from the
batting cage at the Florida Auto
Exchange Stadium.
The morning sun beat down
on this slice of Florida while
Bautista swung to Billy Corgan
singing “Believe, believe in me,
believe. That life can change,
that you’re not stuck in vain.
We’re not the same, we’re different tonight.”
Pitchers and catchers don’t
report until Tuesday but hopes
are already sky high around
the big-spending Blue Jays (7389 last season, fourth in the AL
East) in the wake of acquiring

win, that’s the difference,” said
Brandon Morrow.
“This team is built to win
and that’s all I’ve ever wanted.
Just to get a chance to win,”
added fellow pitcher Ricky
Romero.
But then he sounded what
could be a familiar note of caution this spring training,
“On paper, we’re a great
team ... (but) it doesn’t matter
what kind of team you have on
paper, you’ve still got to go out
there and play. If anything, the
target’s grown a little bit on us.
Obviously teams are going to
want to beat us and they’re going to see what we’re all about.”
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Horoscopes

Libra

Aries

Sept. 24 - Oct. 23
It’s highly unlikely that you will
get through the day without
clashing with someone you
believe is a threat to your security. You may in fact be entirely
wrong, but it’s better to be safe
than sorry. Protect yourself.

March 21 - April 20
Give yourself permission to
dream. You may be a realist by
nature but a little bit of fantasy
is not a bad thing and could do
wonders for your confidence.
You may think of something
you can use to your advantage.

Taurus

April 21 - May 21
Everything seems to be moving
in the right direction for you
now but the downside is that
certain people are resentful of
your success and may try to
blow you off course. Don’t let it
happen. Be ruthless if you must.

Scorpio

Oct. 24 - Nov. 22
Anyone who thinks they can
get the better of you
intellectually is living in cloud
cuckoo land. Your sharp
Scorpio mind will run circles
around them today and they’ll
think twice before they take
you on again.

Gemini

Sagittarius

May 22 - June 21
Mercury, your ruler is on good
terms with both Pluto and
Saturn, so you will be thinking
some pretty deep thoughts.
Don’t get too serious though.
Yours is a sign that does best
when things are kept as
light-hearted as possible.

Nov. 23 - Dec. 21
Stick to your timetable today
— don’t let anything distract
you or let anyone lead you
astray. You are on a very tight
schedule at the moment and
the slightest deviation could be
disastrous. Make sure you’re
well organized.

Cancer

Capricorn

June 22 - July 23
You are appreciated by a great
many people, probably more
than you realize, and some of
those people will go out of
their way to show their
gratitude towards you today.
Enjoy your good fortune. You
thoroughly deserve it.

Dec. 22 - Jan. 20
There is a great deal of tension
both at home and at work at
the moment and the best way
to get through it is to stay calm.
Above all, watch what you say.
You can be rather harsh in your
comments sometimes.

Leo

Aquarius

July 24 - Aug. 23
Changes on the work front will
create new opportunities and if
you are quick to react to them
it won’t be long before you are
moving up in the world. Don’t
ever doubt that you are equal
to the job — you’re the best!

Jan. 21 - Feb. 19
You have a whole load of plans
but not everyone in your social
circle or at work seems to share
your enthusiasm. But what of
it? If you have to do it all
yourself then you won’t have to
share the spoils!

Virgo

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Feb. 20 - March 20
Mercury in your sign links with
both Pluto and Saturn today,
adding a sharp edge to your
mind and an equally sharp
edge to your tongue. Whatever
it is you have to say, no one will
fail to get the message.

Aug. 24 - Sept. 23
Do you wish you were some
place else than where you
actually are? According to the
planets, you are thinking about
making some kind of move and
it could be a big one. Don’t just
change the scenery, change
your lifestyle too.